Quotes

Quotes about Misfortune

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem.]

Philip James Boethius

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Troloppe